Thread:Saruhikofushimis/@comment-4754943-20160913093455/@comment-4754943-20160915082608

Hey,

Oh well - I really had the same problem figuring out what "mental" means.

I was thinking about some kind of inteligence either - like how good can they manipulate other people...

But also about something like: How easy/hard they can be wavered...Yeah Faustus is not "stable" but maybe its not about how stable one character is, but how "strong" they are mentally (thogh here I had problems with Tsurugis 6/10 since he seems not  really "strong" in that way")

Then I thought how good they are in keeping their opinion and fight for their own goals/how easyly you can force them off track... (so I mean especially in battle or simular situations...) Like Kuro's score is low, he doesn't like battles and often doesn't know what he wants (he did once when killing "that person" but since then...I think he didn't dare folloing his own will). Tsurugi may not following his own will, but Toumas - and when he is fighting he is not that instable, except when he has to hurt his friends (but he doesn't have 9 or 10/10 so, that could be one explanation)

Touma has scored pretty high, just as Mikuni or Fausus - they seem to be pretty sure of them self, they know excacly what they want to accomplish and it would be hard to step in their way or even stop them. Sakuya how ever - he is able to do what Tsubaki says, but always when it comes to Mahiru - well he's kinda "off track". (Or Kuro, when he was suddelny thinking about his past, he was too distracted to fight and turned into a ball)

Tsuyuki is not good at combat and he is irritated in battles against vampires cause he hates them so much it seems to be some kind of obsession...

It's hard to put in words though...

Mental strength also accured to be one of my theories...Here I was wondering about Faustus too - but tried to find an explanation. Maybe Faustus doesn't seem stable, but you can not change his opinion or make him desperate. He just "loves" his work and everything that has to do with it too much, so he get's easily lost in it. What I want to say is, that this might not be a weakness of him...Lawless and Licht would fit when  we'd say they mean mental strength, and many others too so maybe we have to think about: if it's concidered a weakness when a characters seems unstable...

so - these were my thoughts....pretty confusing I guess, but that's most likley due to the fact I still don't know for sure what "mental" could mean....

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I was surprised myself when I found out, that Japan is only one volume ahead of us - It was a mere coincidence that I found that manga...I was in a book store and was searching for a new manga to read. Then I picked up some manga and looked into them. Then I saw the cover of smoking Lily and had to giggle. I looked through this manga and saw these funny pictures of Kuro when he's a cat and wanted to see the first volume. There I read the text on the manga's back - and it made me laugh - so that's why I wanted to try out this manga^^

It really hit my sence of humor^^

Then I wanted to know (as I was working on a wikia (the Tales of the Abyss wiki)) if there's a wiki in German. And yeah - there it was, but it had only a bout 7 pages - and there was no active admin. So most of the articles where written by myself and the style is also made by me.

Then later, I was happy to realize, that it was announced to be released in English - so there would be a lot more fans - so maybe then, this wiki won't be an orphan any longer^^

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As for Seraph of the End, yes, I really like it. I first watched the anime (season 1 - I liked the story, and the characters. I have the DVD in German but always watch it in Japanese with Enlish or German Subs because I didn't like the synchro very much. French and English sounds even better than German. In German it sounds like, the sychnro was made in the 90s - not the quality of the sound (that's perfect) but the way how the voice acotros speak.... I don't speak French very well, so if I don't want to hear Japanese I could watch it in English xD.)

After season 1 I was so curious how it would move on with the story, that I watched the 2nd season online. And then I decided to buy the manga as well. But like I said in English. As well as the novels (Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at sixteen) because they are not released in German yet - and I like the way it's written. To be honest - it doesn't make a difference for me if I read English or German manga/textes etc. so it's fine with me.

May I ask what JRPGs you like to play? I like all of the Tales of...games by Namco (where only Tales of the Abyss was released in Only-English, all the others have English or Japanese Audio with German textes), Trails of Cold Steel (here again, USA has already gotten the 2nd game and we have to wait 'til november...), Fire Emblem, Sword Art Online...maybe I forgot one or too, but these are the ones I basicly play when it comes to JRPG.

We have Region-Code 2 here in Europe - so the same as in Japan, this is why I was able to buy the Japanese PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia (since you can play Flynn on the Japanese Remake and can't in the EU/US version for XBox360) I have played the Xbox version so I knew the story and had a perfect help from the internet to understand everything while playing.

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About correcting my mistakes - that's no problem at all, so don't worry. When I write fast, I often drop letters, or switch two of them so I often write "strenght" instad of "strength" (or even use a wrong one, what I usuallly realize my self though. Or I sometimes use c instead of s or vice versa thats because my fingers want to write like the sound is and I don't realize it always ... but hey, that's what I have you for^^ (in a positive way, of cause). I have a simular problem in German, I write and write and when I look over the text the next day I think - OMG what the hell have you written here!? And correct it. When I have more time I ususally write it in word and then I can see right away what is written wrong.

Everyone makes mistakes, so I do too - and I'm happy if someone is correcting them, since it's hard work to read over EVERY text I wrote ^^'

So again, don't feel bad about it - I'm happy you do so^^. (and I'm happy I have someone to discuss Servamp now^^)

~ Akemi